python-datatable 1.1.3

Description:

pythondatatable 1.1.3

datatable






This is an automate Fork of datatable.
Because there is no automated build / publish pipeline for the datatable package, and it is not optimal to always install from GitHub.
Fork-URL: https://github.com/semmjon/datatable.git
This is a Python package for manipulating 2-dimensional tabular data structures
(aka data frames). It is close in spirit to pandas or SFrame; however we
put specific emphasis on speed and big data support. As the name suggests, the
package is closely related to R's data.table and attempts to mimic its core
algorithms and API.
Requirements: Python 3.6+ (64 bit) and pip 20.3+.
Project goals
datatable started in 2017 as a toolkit for performing big data (up to 100GB)
operations on a single-node machine, at the maximum speed possible. Such
requirements are dictated by modern machine-learning applications, which need
to process large volumes of data and generate many features in order to
achieve the best model accuracy. The first user of datatable was
Driverless.ai.
The set of features that we want to implement with datatable is at least
the following:


Column-oriented data storage.


Native-C implementation for all datatypes, including strings. Packages such
as pandas and numpy already do that for numeric columns, but not for
strings.


Support for date-time and categorical types. Object type is also supported,
but promotion into object discouraged.


All types should support null values, with as little overhead as possible.


Data should be stored on disk in the same format as in memory. This will
allow us to memory-map data on disk and work on out-of-memory datasets
transparently.


Work with memory-mapped datasets to avoid loading into memory more data than
necessary for each particular operation.


Fast data reading from CSV and other formats.


Multi-threaded data processing: time-consuming operations should attempt to
utilize all cores for maximum efficiency.


Efficient algorithms for sorting/grouping/joining.


Expressive query syntax (similar to data.table).


Minimal amount of data copying, copy-on-write semantics for shared data.


Use "rowindex" views in filtering/sorting/grouping/joining operators to
avoid unnecessary data copying.


Interoperability with pandas / numpy / pyarrow / pure python: the users
should have the ability to convert to another data-processing framework
with ease.


Installation
On macOS, Linux and Windows systems installing datatable is as easy as
pip install datatable

On all other platforms a source distribution will be needed. For more
information see Build instructions.
See also

Build instructions
Documentation